Program overview

TUESDAY MORNING, 4 MAY 2004

08:00 V2.001 Is Nuclear Physics Interesting? Nuclear Physics for Undergraduates -- Strategies and Topics for Teaching the Underprepared

Charles H. Holbrow (Colgate University)

08:36 V2.002 The MoNA Project: Doing Big Science Projects With Small-College Undergraduates

Bryan Luther (Concordia College, Moorhead, MN)

09:12 V2.003 A Report on the Conference Experience for Undergraduates

Warren F. Rogers (Westmont College)

09:48 V2.004 Initial Key Results from the NSAC Subcommittee Survey on Nuclear Science PhDs 5-10 Years Later

Joseph Cerny (University of California, Berkeley)

08:00 V3.001 Multiwavelength imaging of kiloparsec-scale jets

Daniel Schwartz (SAO)

08:36 V3.002 Tomography of jets

Fabrizio Tavecchio (INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera, Milano, Italy)

09:12 V3.003 Origin of the multiwavelength emission from kpc-scale jets

Charles Dermer (Naval Research Laboratory)

09:48 V3.004 Origin of Jets

David Meier (JPL)

10:24 V3.005 The Physics of Jets from Laboratory Experiments

Johnny Ng (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center)

08:00 V4.001 Limits on WIMP dark matter from CDMS

Harry Nelson (UC Santa Barbara)

08:36 V4.002 Constraints on Dark Matter Halo Models from Different Detections Methods: Present and Future

Lawrence Krauss (Physics and Astronomy Departments, Case Western Reserve University)

09:12 V4.003 Cosmology with Type Ia Supernovae

Greg Aldering (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)

09:48 V4.004 Models for the Dark Energy Equation-of-State

Robert Caldwell (Dartmouth College)

10:24 V4.005 A Cyclic Models of the Universe

Paul Steinhardt (Department of Physics, Princeton University)

08:00 V5.001 Integrated Simulation and Optimization of Fusion Systems: the Fusion Simulation Project

Donald B. Batchelor (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

08:36 V5.002 National Fusion Collaboratory: Grid Computing for Simulations and Experiments

Martin Greenwald (MIT - Plasma Science amp; Fusion Center)

09:12 V5.003 Simulation of High Energy Density Laboratory Plasmas

Joyce Guzik (Applied Physics Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory)

09:48 V5.004 Progress and Future Directions in Confined Magnetic Fusion Simulation

V.S. Chan (General Atomics)

10:24 V5.005 The Role of Small Scale Processes in Solar Corona Dynamics

Giorgio Einaudi (U.Pisa)

08:00 V8.001 The President's Scientists: Reminiscences of a White House Science Advisor

D. Allan Bromley (Yale University)

08:36 V8.002 Presidential Science Advising from Roosevelt to Reagan

Gregg Herken (University of California)

09:12 V8.003 Science Advising Successes and Failures

Wolfgang Panofsky (SLAC)

09:48 V8.004 On Advising Congress and the President

Jack H. Gibbons

10:24 V8.005 The Congressional Science Fellow Program and Other Efforts to Help Congress and the Public Make Wiser Decisions on Technology

Joel Primack (University of California,Santa Cruz)

08:00 V9.001 The LIGO Experiment -- Present and Future

Keith Riles (University of Michigan)

08:36 V9.002 Results from LIGO Searches for Binary Inspiral Gravitational Waves

Peter Shawhan (California Institute of Technology)

09:12 V9.003 Results from LIGO's Second Search for Gravitational-Wave Bursts

Patrick J. Sutton (LIGO Laboratory, California Institute of Technology)

09:48 V9.004 The Search for Continuous Gravitational Waves: Analyses of Data from LIGO's Second Science Run

Michael Landry (LIGO Hanford Observatory)

10:24 V9.005 The Search for a Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background.

Peter Fritschel (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

08:00 V11.001 Measurement of the Ratio of Semileptonic to Hadronic Partial Decay Width with\$\Lambda_b and B^0 Decays\sqrts=1.96~ TeV

Shin-Shan Yu (University of Pennsylvania)

08:12 V11.002 Measurement of the ratio of the Branching Fractions BR(B^- \rightarrow D^*0 K^-)/BR(B^- \rightarrow D^*0 \pi^-)

Giampiero Mancinelli (Univ. of Cincinnati), BaBar Collaboration

08:24 V11.003 Observation of semi-leptonic B decays to D^** final states.

Andrei Nomerotski (Fermilab), DZero Collaboration

08:36 V11.004 Measurement of the branching fractions \cal B(B^0 \rightarrow D_s^ast+ D^\ast-) and \cal B (D_s^+ \rightarrow \phi \pi^+) with the BaBar detector.

Michele Pioppi (Universita and INFN), BaBar Collaboration

08:48 V11.005 Measurement of the branching ratio of the B^0\rightarrow\psi(2S)K_s decay.

Alex Olivas (Univ. of Colorado), BaBar Collaboration

09:00 V11.006 Observation of B^\pm \rightarrow J/\psi \eta K^\pm, Evidence for B^0 \rightarrow J/\psi \eta K^0_S, Search for B^ \pm \rightarrow X(3872)K^\pm Decays

Aidong Chen (Colorado State Univ), BaBar Collaboration

09:12 V11.007 Study of the decays B\to p\barp H (H=\pi^\pm,\,K^\pm ,\,K^*0)

Tetiana Hryn'ova (SLAC), BaBar Collaboration

09:24 V11.008 Measurements of branching fraction and polarization for B\toømega\rho and B\toømega K with BaBar.

Lei Zhang (University of Colorado), BaBar Collaboration

09:36 V11.009 Measurement of branching fractions and charge asymmetries for the decays B\to (\eta,\eta^\prime)(K,\rho) with BaBar

Keith Ulmer (University of Colorado)

09:48 V11.010 Measurement of form factors in B^0 \rightarrow D \ell \nu_\ell.

Mandeep Gill (U.C. Berkeley), BaBar Collaboration

10:00 V11.011 Study of the hadronic decay B \rightarrow D^(*) \pi^-, \rho^-, a_1^-.

Haiwen Zhao (Univ. of Mississippi), BaBar Collaboration

10:12 V11.012 Study of B \rightarrow D_20(2460)\pi and B \rightarrow_1^0(2420)\pi Decays.

Vance Eschenburg (University of Mississippi), BaBar Collaboration

10:24 V11.013 Observation of B^**0 at the DØexperiment.

Matt Doidge (Lancaster University, UK), DZero Collaboration

10:36 V11.014 Study of Semileptonic B Decays in Y(4S) Decays with one Fully Reconstructed Hadronic B Meson Decay.

Edward J. Hill (UC San Diego), BaBar Collaboration

10:48 V11.015 Measurement of the branching fraction of the charmless two body decay B^0 \to \pi^0\pi^0 with the BaBar detector.

Markus Cristinziani (SLAC), BaBar Collaboration

08:00 V12.001 New Result on the measurement of B(\mboxK^+ \! \rightarrow \! \pi^+ \nu øverline\nu ) from BNL E949

Benji Lewis (University of New Mexico)

08:12 V12.002 Search for the rare kaon decay K^+ \to \pi^+ \nu \bar \nu at the BNL E787/E949 Experiment.

Bipul Bhuyan (Univ. of Victoria amp; BNL), E787/E949 Collaboration

08:24 V12.003 First observation of K_S \rightarrow \pi^0 \mu^+ \mu^- and K_S \rightarrow \pi^0 e^+ e^-

Teresa Fonseca Martin (Northwestern University), NA48/1 (CERN) Collaboration

08:36 V12.004 The Weak Production of Lambda Particles in Electron, Muon, and Tau Scattering from Protons

Stephan Mintz (Florida International University)

08:48 V12.005 Anomalously light mesons in SYM theory with fundamental matter

Uwe Trittmann (Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, Otterbein College, Westerville OH 43081)

09:00 V12.006 Properties of the X(3872) Meson

Christoph Paus (TBA)

09:12 V12.007 Preliminary results on the X(3872) state.

Isaac Hall (Oklahoma University), DZero Collaboration

09:24 V12.008 Search for Charmed Pentaquark States at Tevatron p\barp Collider

Yeonsei Chung (Rochester)

09:36 V12.009 Ferreting through X(3872) alternatives

Pete Zweber (Northwestern University), CLEO Collaboration

09:48 V12.010 Study of B^-\to J/\psi K^-\pi^+\pi^- decays and measurement of the B^-\to X(3872) K^- Branching Fraction.

Alessia D'Orazio (Universitá degli Studi ``La Sapienza'' and INFN), BaBar Collaboration

10:00 V12.011 A Search for Evidence of Isospin 3/2 \Xi Pentaquark Production in e^+e^- Interactions at a Center of Mass Energy of 10.58 GeV.

Valerie Halyo (SLAC), BaBar Collaboration

10:24 V12.012 A Search for Production of Pentaquark States Decaying to K_S^0p and K_S^0 \bar\rmp Final States in e^+ e^- Interactions at a Center of Mass Energy of 10.58 GeV.

Jonathon Coleman (University of Liverpool), BaBar Collaboration

10:36 V12.013 Search for exotic baryons at HERMES.

Wouter Deconinck, Avetik Airapetian, Wolfgang Lorenzon (University of Michigan), The HERMES Collaboration

10:48 V12.014 Status of the measurement of Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa Quark-Mixing matrix element V_us from 2003 data from NA48/2 experiment at CERN

Anne Dabrowski (Northwestern University,Department of Physics and Astronomy, 2145 Sheridan Rd, Evanston IL 60208), NA48/2 Collaboration

08:00 V13.001 Galaxy Formation Without Dark Matter

Eric J. Lerner (Lawrenceville Plasma Physics)

08:12 V13.002 Supernovae Light Curves: An Argument for a New Distance Modulus

Jerry Jensen (Scientist, ATK Thiokol Propulsion)

08:24 V13.003 From the Electron to the Cosmos to Redshift

Milo Wolff (Mass. Inst. of Technology. - retired)

08:36 V13.004 Superspace Cavity QED Blackbody Equilibrium Modes Delineating CMBR Emission and Non-Doppler Redshift Absorption

Richard Amoroso (Noetic Advanced Studies Institute)

08:48 V13.005 The Key to the Computation of the Spectra of the Quasars and Cosmic Acceleration

Jacques Moret-Bailly, Jerry Jensen, Francoise Michelot (Universite de bourgogne, Physique, Dijon France)

09:00 V13.006 The Compton Effect Red Shift

John Kierein (self)

09:12 V13.007 2004 Election Implications of Censorship of Disproof Of Big Bang Cosmology (BBC)

Robert Gentry (The Orion Foundation, Knoxville, TN 37912)

09:24 V13.008 On The Possibility Of Relativistic Shock-Wave Effects In Observations of Quasar Luminosity

Elizabeth Rauscher (Tecnic Research Laboratory), Richard Amoroso (Noetic Advanced Studies Institute)

09:36 V13.009 Neutrino Spectrometers - A Search for Information

C. F. Gallo (Superconix Inc.)

09:48 V13.010 Schools Of Up to A Dozen Animal Skeletons, Each In Form of the Ellipitcal Letter "O", Ranging in Height From 4 Inches to Over 1 Ft. and Body Thickness of 1/2-3/4 Inches, Have Been Found Embedded in Top 1 of Only 2 Extruded Limestone Streambeds That Run Across West Face of Grandeur Pk., Wasatch Range and Then Turn East, Going Upstream, to Church Fork (or Park), Millcreek Canyon, Remaining Separated. Lower Streambed Was Not Examined Beyond West Face. Various Other Skeletal Structures Exist and Strata of Seashells Have Previously Been Shown(1), Esp. in Antitributary Streams.

KEITH L. McDONALD, RUSSELL T. McDONALD

10:00 V13.011 : The Key to the Computation of the Spectra of the quasars and cosmic redshift patterns.

Jacques Moret-Bailly (none (retired University professor)), Jerry Jensen

V13.012 SuperNova 1A Redshifts - Major Questions

C. F. Gallo (Superconix Inc.)

V13.013 Large Quasar Redshifts due to Non-Doppler, Non-Expansion Mechanism

C. F. Gallo (Superconix Inc)

08:00 V14.001 Proton Electric to Magnetic Form Factor Ratio at BLAST

Adrian Sindile, Tong-Uk Lee, John Calarco (UNH), BLAST Collaboration

08:12 V14.002 Measurement Of The Proton Structure Function (F_2) At Low Q^2

Edwin Segbefia (Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility E00-002 Colaboration)

08:24 V14.003 Coherent Pion Photoproduction on Deuterium

Yordanka Ilieva (The George Washington University), CLAS Collaboration

08:36 V14.004 Electroproduction of \pi^0 from \Delta(1232) at high Q^2 with CLAS

Maurizio Ungaro (University of Connecticut, Jefferson Laboratory), Paul Stoler (Rennselaer Polytechninc Institute, Jefferson Laboratory), CLAS Collaboration

08:48 V14.005 Spectroscopic Study of ^12_\LambdaB and ^7_\LambdaHe Hypernuclei Through Electroproduction

Lulin Yuan (Hampton University), JLab E89-009 (HNSS) Collaboration

09:00 V14.006 Spectroscopic Study of \Lambda Hypernuclei up to Medium-Heavy Mass Region through the (e,e\primeK^+) Reaction

Alicia Uzzle (Hampton University), JLab E01-011 Collaboration

09:12 V14.007 Dynamical Model for Pion Photo- and Electro-production on the Nucleon

G. L. Caia (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Ohio University), V. Pascalutsa (Jefferson Lab), L. E. Wright (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Ohio University)

09:24 V14.008 Issues of Radiative Corrections in the Extraction of Proton Form-Factors

Gagik Yeghiyan, Misak Sargsian (Florida International University)

09:36 V14.009 The proton electromagnetic form factors from meson dressing

Sergey Kondratyuk, Kuniharu Kubodera, Fred Myhrer (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina)

09:48 V14.010 Probing nuclear correlations with (e,e'p) and (e,e'd) reactions

L. C. LIU (Los Alamos National Laboratory), M. TOMASELLI (GSI, Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung)

10:00 V14.011 Exclusive Electro-disintegration of the Deuteron at High Q^2

Misak Sargsian (Florida International University)

10:12 V14.012 Two Nucleon Emission from ^3He at High Q^2

Tigran Abrahamyan, Misak Sargsian (Florida International University)

10:24 V14.013 Electron-Nucleus Hamiltonian with the Relativistic Correction

Roman Ya. Kezerashvili (New York City College of Technology, CUNY, 300 Jay Street, Brooklyn NY 11201, USA)

08:00 V15.001 J/\psi production in a gluon plasma produced in Au-Au collisions at \sqrts_NN=200 GeV

Bin Zhang, Donald Johnson (Arkansas State University)

08:12 V15.002 Hadron Spectra from PHOBOS in d+Au Collisions

Gabor Veres (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), PHOBOS Collaboration

08:24 V15.003 Multiplicity Fluctuations in 200 GeV Au-Au Collisions

Zhengwei Chai (Brookhaven National Laboratory), PHOBOS Collaboration

08:36 V15.004 Study of electron-hadron azimuthal correlations

Sotiria Batsouli (Columbia University), PHENIX Collaboration

08:48 V15.005 Studying (Multi-)Strange Baryon Production at High Transverse Momentum in p+p and d+Au Collisions at \sqrts_NN=200\; GeV

Betty Bezverkhny (Yale University), STAR Collaboration

09:00 V15.006 Non-equilibrium statistics for particle spectra in relativistic heavy ion collisions

Athanasios Petridis (Drake University)

09:12 V15.007 Cross-referencing observables in heavy-ion collisions

Thorsten Renk (Duke University), Alberto Polleri (TU Munich), Wolfram Weise (TU Munich and ECT* (Trento))

09:24 V15.008 Bombarding-Energy Dependence of Particle and Cluster Emission in 86Kr + 197Au Reactions

Jun Lu, W. Gawlikowicz, D. W. Kostecke, J. Toke, W. U. Schroeder (University of Rochester), R. J. Charity, L.G. Sobotka (Washington University), W. Loveland (Oregon State University), B. Lott (GANIL), L. Pienkowski (University of Rochester)

09:36 V15.009 Energy and isospin dependence of the fragments produced in multifragmentation

D.V. Shetty, A.S. Botvina, S.J. Yennello, A. Keksis, E. Martin, G.A. Souliotis (Cyclotron Institute, Texas Aamp;M University, College Station, TX 77843)

09:48 V15.010 Isospin and kinematical properties of heavy residues from the multifragmentation of neutron-rich systems

G.A. Souliotis, M. Veselsky, A.S. Botvina, A. Keksis, E. Martin, D.V. Shetty, S.J. Yennello (Cyclotron Institute, Texas AM University, College Station, Texas 77843-3366)

10:00 V15.011 Physical observables of isospin equilibrium

E. Martin, K. Hagel, R. Wada, S. Soisson, D. V. Shetty, A. Keksis, Y. Ma, A. Makeev, M. Murray, J. Natowitz, L. Qin, A. Ruangma, P. Smith, G. Souliotis, M. Veselsky, J. Wang, E. M. Winchester, S. J. Yennello (Texas Aamp;M University, College Station, Texas), M. Cinausero, E. Fioretto, G. Prete (INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, Legnaro, Italy), D. Fabris, M. Lunardon, G. Nebbia, V. Rizzi, G. Viesti (INFN Dipartimento di Fisica, Padova, Italy), J. Cibor, Z. Majka, P. Staszel (Jagellonian University, Krakow, Poland), R. Alfarro, A. Martinez-Davalos, A. Menchaca-Rocha (UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico), Y. El Masri, T. Keutgen (UCL, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium)